In sweats for hats



GEORGE W. THOMPSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No.A 82,364, dated September 22, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWEATS FOB. HATS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN: y

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. THOMPSON, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use, a certain new and useful Iufiprovement in Hat and Capweats; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, wherein I have shown a view sectionally of said hat-sweat. i i

Heretofore the head-lining or sweat for 'hats and caps has been made of leather, that is either plain or enamelled to render it water-proof. Muslin has also been used as a sweat, but itis unsightly, thick, heavy, and shows the lines of the threads in almost allcases, besides which, the enamelling being thick to cover the threads, is liable to crack and scale off, and the perspiration is drawn along the fibres, and'is very liable to pass into the hat or cap, and injure the same. With leather the same diiieulty is experienced; the thickness of the leather is such that the edge is very liable to be exposed, and the perspiration is drawn along behind the enamelling, and

-dscolors the same, and injures the hat or cap.

i The nature of my saidinvention consists in a hat-sweat formed of paper rendered water-proof, and imitating` leather .in its appearance, but much superior thereto because it is much thinner, equally strong, less liable to injury from perspiration, not as costly as either leather or musliu, and a much better protection to tberbat or cap.

AI take paper of a thin, strong, pliable character, (such as is known in the trade as japan-paper is preferable,`)

and I render the same still more Water-proof than the same usually is by'a coating of varnish or enamel of any desired character, 'and I cut the paper out in a strip of the proper length and width, and emboss the same by rollers or otherwise, especially near its edges, so as to give it the finished appearance ofthe leather sweats,'but at the same time produce an'article superior in the foregoing particulars. Thus my hat or cap-sweat becomes a new article of manufacture.

In the drawing, the paper, a, is shown as enamelled on the side b, and embossed at the edges c and cl, to form said hat-sweat. f

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a sweat-band for bats formed of paper lcoated with japan or other waterproof compound, and finished by embossing, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto s et my signature, this 28th day of March, 1868.

G. W; THOMPSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. D WALKER, GHAs. H.- SMITH. 

